HELLO I'M Vinod Nalawade

PROFILE

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RESUME

Something about my experience and skills.

PORTFOLIO

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CONTACT

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PROFILE

STORY OF GLORY

A passionate, award-winning, internationally experienced digital campaign (traffic) and production manager with the ability to maintain client focus in every campaign.

An open-minded and resourceful approach to problem-solving makes it possible for me to keep highly motivated. My adept social media, Google Analytic, webinar management, and web skills play an important part in my ability to meet client challenges and my desire to learn new ways & systems helps me to maintain a fresh approach to problems and keeps me ahead of the competition.

Overall I am an adaptable and motivated team player who is supportive to colleagues and clients alike, my interpersonal and communication skills are a key strength.

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Honors & Awards

My charity/projects/design work has been selected for the entry. Award Ceremony is on 25th October 2018 in Manchester. Hoping for the best!#AsianMediaAwards @asianmediaaward @MediaComUK Asian Media Awards

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Business and Professional Production Team of the year - 2007

Awarded the Business and professional Production team of the year in the Periodical Publishers Association 2007 awards. ?Judges comments?‘William Reed Publishing advertising production team is energetic, motivated, perceptive, customer focused, embracing of new technology without losing focus on the customer service. They have shown what a well-motivated, committed production team can achieve in terms of providing customer service that makes a real difference to a publishing company’s business’

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Award for Individual Contribution to Excellence in Print Media 2005

Print Media Management magazine Quality in Production Award for Individual Contribution to Excellence in Print Media, in recognition of outstanding individual contribution to the consistent delivery of excellence within the field of publishing and advertising.

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Strength : NetworkingNegotiations - Contract - Vendor managementTroubleshooting, Solution finderIndustry Knowledge and Experience in Print and Digital. Experience in pre and after sales activityInternational work experience with a Multicultural team

RESUME

EDUCATION

PPA (The Periodical Publishers Association) UK / 2005 - 2006

Moscow State University, Journalism Faculty, Russia / 1994 - 1995

Master of Arts (M.A.) - International Journalism, Television Journalism, Communication and Related Programs

Moscow State University, Journalism Faculty, Russia / 1990 - 1994

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - International Journalism, Television Journalism, Communication and Related Programs

PRINCE2®

August 2018

EXPERIENCE

Online Production Manager, Reed Business Information

Oct 2015 – Present

Managing the day-to-day operation of a team of 7-10 digital specialists in UK & Manila, looking after the display, classified, recruitment, newsletters, property, and programmatic advertising.

Finding company solutions and new vendors to save money & to bring efficiency to the business. I have trained and mentored the team in key areas and organised courses for team development.

• Video transfer: As a project manager, I found a new vendor via a thorough selection process, saving a substantial amount of the contract value. Around 10,000 videos were moved from old to a new platform, and the links were then manually changed to ensure they all worked. I helped train developers and the editorial team on exclusive functionality and video marketing best practices, and created a page on the intranet offering tips and information. I also provided support and account management to internal stakeholders. After a year of success, the contract was extended for a further two years with additional features for a reduced price.

• Outsourcing trafficking work: RBI has divested five brands in the last three years, and advertising volume has also been on the decline which has required us to look for ways to save money while increasing efficiency and campaign management for our customers. After a selection process, three offshore companies were shortlisted and I visited them to help finalise a deal. I worked with legal, security, IT and finance departments to resolve any issues and then helped to train the new team, write process documents and ensure all six staff were well equipped to provide trafficking and campaign management services to support the UK team.

• Virtual recruitment fair on FlightGlobal: on two occasions we organised a virtual fair for two and three days to promote aviation industry jobs. We attracted more than 1500 people to attend the event with 10 sponsors, with many happy customers and successful job placements.

Traffic and Operations Manager - Reed Business Information

May 2015 – Oct 2015

I provide ongoing support for clients and stakeholders - predominantly technical and targeting / delivery queries. I project managed the implementation of GPT tags for DFP premium websites for the entire RBI portfolio. This involved building and maintaining good relationships with both internal and external clients, the internal development teams and third parties. Management duties included: Hiring, mentoring, training, KPI creation, appraisals, disciplinary actions, team budgets, monthly board reports.

Digital Production Manager - William Reed Business Media

Oct 2012 – Apr 2015

William Reed Business Media is a business-to-business publisher supplying strategically relevant news directly to the desktops of decision-makers in the science, cosmetics and food industries. We offer innovative online marketing solutions for leading international industry providers.

I was responsible for coordinating and managing the day-to-day operations of the digital production team (5 people). I reported to the Executive Director – responsibilities included implementing & reviewing digital strategy and new software launches within the company.To ensure an efficient and accurate service I ensured best practice, workflow, and quality was enforced throughout the business.

Digital Campaign Manager - William Reed Business Media

Apr 2011 – Oct 2012

William Reed Business Media is a business-to-business publisher supplying strategically relevant news directly to the desktops of decision-makers in the science, cosmetics and food industries. We offer innovative online marketing solutions for leading international industry providers.

I managed accounts and provided excellent customer service to the customers in our portfolio from Asia, Europe, US. This involved chasing clients for material, providing technical specs and support as required. I solely managed ad production for 3 UK sites covering the leisure and manufacturing industries.

Senior Ad Production Executive - William Reed Business Media

Mar 1998 – Feb 2010

William Reed Business Media is a leading business to business publisher with an extensive range of high quality, award-winning products serving the UK food and drink.

In the absence of a Group manager for nearly a year, I deputised and organised the daily workload for a team of 12, arranged group projects, solved technical and administrative issues, monitored print deadlines & provided support to the sales team. I organised the advertisement production and management for company’s two flagship, principal and market-leading weekly titles.

GHU Website

DIVERSECrawley

DIVERSE Crawley began in Summer 2017, launched as part of Crawley’s 70th anniversary, to share and showcase the rich diversity of our town.

DIVERSECrawley aims are to:

Promote community cohesion

Organise, host and promote events to celebrate the rich culture of our diverse community

Encourage communities across Crawley to participate

Offer opportunities to volunteers to participate in and develop skills

Encourage partnership organisations to get involved

Fundraise for the programme of activities

DIVERSE Crawley

DIVERSECRAWLEY

DIVERSE Crawley began in Summer 2017, launched as part of Crawley’s 70th anniversary, to share and showcase the rich diversity of our town.

DIVERSECrawley aims are to:

Promote community cohesion

Organise, host and promote events to celebrate the rich culture of our diverse community

Encourage communities across Crawley to participate

Offer opportunities to volunteers to participate in and develop skills

Encourage partnership organisations to get involved

Fundraise for the programme of activities

SOME WORDS FROM CLIENTS

Vinod and I have worked successfully on the Farmers Weekly classifieds migration project. We have thus laid the foundation for the successful cooperation between the tractorpool and Farmers Weekly classifieds brands.
He was my competent point of contact in factual questions throughout the entire project, from preparation, planning and implementation through to productive operation. he always managed to overcome obstacles with the project objectives in focus and solved problems in an uncomplicated and direct manner and - if possible - on the short official channels. His direct communication and structured approach contributed significantly to the success of the project. The cooperation was very pleasant and a lot of fun.
Mission accomplished! I am looking forward to furthering successful cooperation!

Niklas Donath - IT Projekt Manager bei LV digital GmbH

I worked with Vinod as coach-mentor to help him gain new insight and awareness of his management style. During the programme he demonstrated a genuine desire for self-learning to better understand his strengths and development needs to further improve his performance as a leader. He was very receptive to news ways of thinking and happy to experiment with different approaches when interacting with his team.
He was not afraid to ask for feedback from his manager and direct reports to build a more accurate picture of how he is perceived. It was a pleasure to work with Vinod, as he has a real appetite to take greater responsibility for his own learning and development.

Malcolm J Taylor - Executive Coach & Mentor

It gives me great pleasure to introduce Vinod Nalawade to you. As DTP Team Production Manager at William Reed Publishing, I worked with
Vinod for two and half years.
During this period, Vinod was Ad Production Co-ordinator for several of our drinks titles, both weekly and monthly magazines. His job was to chase up outstanding adverts, check the digital files and make any corrections required by printers, set new adverts, page layout, finalise and approve digital pages, general communication with all the advertisers and in-house departments and ensure that all deadlines were kept. His immense language skills have been invaluable to the job.
Vinod had carried out this very demanding role successfully, with both production and management skills. His willingness to learn in unbounding, as is his eagerness to take on more responsibilty. He executed his duties with efficiency and friendliness. Vinod is a team member who is always willing to help co-workers and customers outside the role of his job specification. I am happy to unreservedly recommend him to you and wish him the best of luck.

Katie Short

I have worked with Vinod over the last 5 years and on many occasions, he has been my savior. His knowledge of our digital platforms is second to none and his organised approach and attention to detail ensures that nothing slips through the net.
Vinod manages production for 26 websites and delivers all of our multi and rich media. We have run many webinars over the last couple of years and it is Vinod that has facilitated. From pulling together and organizing speakers, to recording, production and delivery, Vinod has never faltered and we have had satisfied and happy customers on every occasion. Digital is all about tracking and results and it is Vinod and his team that provide the backup and follow up with our sales processes.
Vinod is a kind caring man who will always go the extra mile for clients and colleagues. Quite frankly, without Vinod, I would have sunk without trace!
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Len Beckett - MD at VRKconnect

For the first time in the 50 year history of Gurjar Hindu Union (GHU), a charitable organisation for Hindus in Crawley, we decided to print and publish a calendar to celebrate the Golden jubilee.
Vinod, working closely with Bharat Lukka (GHU Director/Governor for Marketing Digital Media & Events ), came up with a simple formula to enable this to happen. The 13 pages of the calendar would each be sponsored to cover the costs. It would contain pictures from our ornate building and temple, it would be impactful and beautiful and issued free of charge to everyone.
GHU worked on the project for three months. The result was amazing. We achieved all the original objectives and produced 2,000 copies of a calendar. It was distributed to the members last year at our Diwali function (October 2017).
Members came in droves to collect their copies and complimented highly on the achievements. Some feedback we received is below :
• Spectacular quality and shows vibrancy of colour
• Information contained in the calendar is very helpful
• The calendar is beautiful, wonderful and so very creative - we loved it!
• It is not only beautiful but large high quality pictures means I am able to hang it proudly in my lounge
• Great product for 50th anniversary celebrations of GHU. Well thought through, high impact campaign, great personalisation with impressive pictures of deities and temple
Ashwin Soni
Former Technical Manager at Kimberly-Clark Corporation
GHU - Governor and volunteer